Pampeana No. 2 for cello and piano by Alberto Ginastera
Edited by Aurora Nátola-Ginastera. Published by Boosey and Hawkes.
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) was an Argentine classical composer and one of the most important South American composers of the 20th century. He was a student of Copland and a teacher of Piazzolla. Many of his works, like his Pampeanas, unite modernism with evocations of Argentine life.
"Pampeana" refers to the low-lying plains of Argentina; as such, his fiery, rhapsodic Pampeana No. 2 for cello and piano, Op.21 (1950) evokes the life of Argentine gauchos (cowboys and horseman) who work the land. Advanced level, Grade 5.